
Dark Inquisitor Xanesh, Healer Guide
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago for patch 8.3 by Preston.
This page covers a healer-focused strategy for Dark Inquisitor Xanesh in Ny'alotha, the Waking City. While it's tailored for healers, other roles may also find the information useful. If you have any suggestions or feedback, you can leave a comment below or tweet @PrestonDvorak.
This guide has been updated and maintained based on my own experiences with the encounter, logs information, and Dungeon Journal information. I'll continue to update it as-needed.
General Mechanics and Abilities
Normal and Heroic
- Tanks will be dealing with
Abyssal Strike, this will force a tank switch.
- When affected by
Soul Flay, run as far away from your linked Soul as possible to reduce the damage taken.
- At 100% energy, three orange zones appear around Xanesh. One player must stand in each zone to participate in the
Void Ritual to prevent fatal damage being dealt to all players.
- When the Ritual finishes, a
Void Orb spawns.
- Participating players gain
Voidwoken, allowing them to safely touch the
Void Orb and bounce it in the direction their character is facing.
- On Heroic, participating players also gain
Void-Touched after the
Void Orb is eliminated, preventing them participating in the Ritual for 2-minutes.
- On Heroic, participating players also gain
- The
Void Orb must be directed into an open Void Portal to be consumed while not allowing it to touch non-
Voidwoken players, Ritual Obelisks, Queen Azshara, or the edges of the room.
- If a non-
Voidwoken player is hit, they take heavy damage and are knocked back by
Revile.
- If an Obelisk, Queen Azshara, or the edge of the room is hit,
Dark Collapse deals heavy damage to all players and applies
Dark Ascension, increasing damage taken by subsequent
Dark Collapses.
- Xanesh also gains
Fanaticism, increasing attack speed for 30-seconds.
- Xanesh also gains
- On Heroic, when a
Voidwoken player touches the
Void Orb, they gain a stack of
Imminent Doom.
- If this reaches 5-stacks, the player is killed by
Doom.
- If this reaches 5-stacks, the player is killed by
- If a non-
- When the Ritual finishes, a
- On Heroic, avoid the
Ritual Fields around Ritual Obelisks.
- Queen Azshara
Mythic Differences
- When a
Voidwoken player touches the
Void Orb an Awakened Terror spawns.
- Awakened Terror
- Interrupt
Terror Wave to prevent the moderate damage dealt to all players and the Fear effect.
- Interrupt
- Awakened Terror
Healing Notes
Quick Notes, All Difficulties
The notes below mostly pertain to progression difficulty, meaning if you out-gear the difficulty you're on or use extra healers they may not apply.
- Use Major Cooldowns on
- Use Minor Cooldowns
- as-needed for
Anguish
- as-needed for
- Pre-heal Before (mainly for heal over time classes)
Potion of Replenishment use
- after a
Void Orb
- after a
- Other things to watch for
- Be prepared to avoid the path of the
Void Orb.
- Be prepared to avoid the path of the
Debuffs to Track
Major
Soul Flay causes players to need additional healing.
Minor
Void-Touched causes players to need additional healing.
DBM Settings
Below are the DBM settings I'll be using for Dark Inquisitor Xanesh. You can set them up however you'd like, but these ones should work well as a starting point. Some settings may be Mythic only.
Healer DBM Settings for Dark Inquisitor Xanesh
Videos
Heroic Dark Inquisitor Xanesh, Restoration Druid PoV
Below is a video of me killing Xanesh in a Heroic PUG.
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